America Ferrera Quotes
The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't work we're gonna get rid of.
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Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
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My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.
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I felt no obligation to bow to any 21st Century political correctness. What I did feel an obligation to do was to take the 21stCentury viewers and physically transport them back to the ante bellum South in 1858, in Mississippi, and have them look at America for what it was back then. And I wanted it to be shocking.
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A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race-and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.3
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The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.
